Mandy's Mercurial Monologue

John 18:10 (NASB) 10  Simon Peter then,  having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear; and the slave’s name was Malchus.   I once saw a documentary on the Hutterite Brethren. A family among them lost both parents and began to explore life outside their sect. Lo and behold, they went to a tent meeting and got saved. A “people group movement” began when they returned home. Folks who saw the difference between their own law-bound lives and the vibrant joy of these new Christians wanted to hear the gospel, liberated, as such, from Martin Luther’s  old German translation of the Bible. Amazingly, the secular documentarians recorded the preaching of the eldest brother. He was urging those who were sharing their faith to learn from the Apostle Peter’s mistake in the garden of Gethsemane . When Peter went on the attack, he cut off a man’s ear. How apt; when we share as if on offense, we cut off the ability of our listeners to hear us. Go